Putting a space suit on a figure in this seated meditation position does in no way represent astronaut Owen Garriott.

Trained to identify the stars with precision at the U.S. Air Force Academy planetarium and the Johnson Space Center, Col.

The Skylab space station crashed into a debris field scattered across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11th, 1979. On that day, the only orbital workshop the United States ever operated ...

Astronaut Bruce McCandless tests the balance and control of a test model of an astronaut maneuvering unit at Martin Marietta Corp.'s Denver Division, as seen on the cover of the August 2, 1971 issue ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Every family has traditions, but holiday dinners weren’t enough for the Garriot ...

In the late 1970s, Antigua’s harbour became more than a hub for vegetables and barrels. Dock workers whispered about containers that were too heavy, too secretive, too guarded. They saw men in foreign ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An astronaut on the Skylab 4 mission ...

Skylab was America’s first space station, launched in 1973 as a pioneering testbed for long-duration space missions. It was an ambitious follow-up to the Apollo program, using leftover Saturn V ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days.

Singapore-based SkyLab is disrupting the cloud landscape with its orchestration platform, which promises to help telcos and enterprises address the challenges of operating hybrid cloud environments.

Visitors to Space Center Houston have walked past a Skylab training model storage locker during trips to the museum for years. Little did they know there were still items in it that hadn't seen the ...

COLLEGE STATION, TX, UNITED STATES, August 20, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dr. J.P. "Joe" Kerwin, the first U.S. physician to go into space, released his highly ...